{"id":4235,"date":"2018-11-10T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T09:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/youtube-u-turn-over-red-dead-redemption-2-suffragette-clips\/"},"modified":"2018-11-10T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T09:53:11","slug":"youtube-u-turn-over-red-dead-redemption-2-suffragette-clips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/youtube-u-turn-over-red-dead-redemption-2-suffragette-clips\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube U-turn over Red Dead Redemption 2 suffragette clips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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YouTube has restored several videos showing a women’s rights campaigner being killed in a variety of ways in the video game Red Dead Redemption 2.<\/p>\n

The platform had deleted the recordings on Wednesday and in one case had banned the clip creator involved.<\/p>\n

The action had represented its first such response to depictions of graphic violence within a mainstream game.<\/p>\n

But it now says that it made a “mistake” and has restricted the clips so they cannot be seen by under-18s.<\/p>\n

Misinterpretation<\/h2>\n

The U-turn occurred after a backlash on social media.<\/p>\n

This included the vlogger PewDiePie retweeting a complaint by one of the video creators, who had accused YouTube of unfair treatment.<\/p>\n

Another popular vlogger, Keem, had also drawn attention to the affair claiming it was “going to create GamerGate 2.0”.<\/p>\n

Ryan Wyatt, YouTube’s head of gaming, eventually responded – blaming the deletions on a misinterpretation of YouTube’s community guidelines.<\/p>\n

“The reviewer will be educated on this outcome and on how to avoid repeating this mistake,” he tweeted.<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, the BBC understands the original decision had involved several members of YouTube’s staff and that the original ruling was overturned once the business’s wider gaming team took charge. <\/p>\n

“YouTube’s community guidelines prohibit among other things, gratuitous violence, nudity, dangerous and illegal activities, and hate speech,” a spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n

“Creative formats such as video games can be challenging to assess but when content crosses the line and is flagged to our attention, we take action as necessary.”<\/p>\n

‘Vague rules’<\/h2>\n

The Western-themed Red Dead Redemption 2 is set at the end of the 19th Century, about two decades before women were given the vote in all US states.<\/p>\n

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\n One of the temporarily banned clips involved the woman being tied up and then fed to animals
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Within the game the player meets several suffragettes.<\/p>\n

In one case it is possible to assault and kill one of the campaigners.<\/p>\n

Several YouTube creators took advantage of this to post recordings of the game’s protagonist killing the computer-controlled character in a series of gruesome ways.<\/p>\n

These included the woman being:<\/p>\n